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November 2022

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Utopie Digitali

by Giuseppe Attardi

Seminario di Cultura Digitale Mercoledì 2 novembre 2022, ore 14:15 Aula PS4 Polo Fibonacci - Pisa Streaming: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html... <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fdl%2Flau…> Utopie Digitali Giuseppe Attardi Secondo il filosofo Yuval Harari la civiltà moderna si basa su realtà immaginarie, tra cui la religione, le nazioni, le aziende, le monete. Gli stati westfaliani nacquero per garantire la sovranità su un certo territorio isolandosi da influenze di altri stati e raggiunsero poteri estremi coi nazionalismi del XX secolo. Con la globalizzazione digitale e l'ideologia neoliberista i loro poteri si sono ridotti, trasferendoli alle grandi aziende private e in parte a organi sovranazionali. Sfruttando la libertà di operare al di fuori da qualunque regolamentazione statale, le Big Tech hanno oggi più potere di molti stati. L’economia delle piattaforme e il capitalismo di sorveglianza le rende in grado di controllare e a volte persino orientare i comportamenti dei loro utenti. Come nel '900 nacquero istituzioni quali sindacati e cooperative per controbilanciare i poteri delle aziende, oggi si potrebbero immaginare delle Utopie Digitali, comunità di persone extra-nazionali, i cui cittadini svolgono le proprie attività aderendo ai principi di base dell’utopia e condividendone i frutti. La registrazione del seminario sarà disponibile su: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html... <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fdl%2Flau…>

Nov. 2, 2022

"Truth Cops - Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Truth Cops** */Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation// / Ken Klippenstein, Lee Fang October 31 2022, 10:00 a.m. The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down. Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information. [...] continua qui: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

Nov. 1, 2022

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